This Is Why You Don't Let Third Eye Blind Play at the RNC

Last night, for perhaps the first time in recorded history, a beloved '90s alt hit did not bring a room of people together. That hit was "Jumper." That '90s alt band was Third Eye Blind. If the lyrics aren't running circles in your head right now, then you're living in a lie, my friend.

For some nonsensical reason, Third Eye Blind was tapped to play a stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after last night's RNC festivities. Third Eye Blind's lead man—who is not, incidentally, Rob Thomas—is staunchly against the Republican party platform. He claimed so, publicly. The band refused to play the RNC back in 2012.

But this year's invitation gave the band an opportunity to land a few punches. Before "Jumper," which is famously about a gay man who kills himself because he was gay, frontman Stephen Jenkins said, "To love this song is to take into your heart the message and to actually have a feeling to arrive and move forward and not live your life in fear and imposing that fear on other people." The Republican party platform is explicitly anti-LGBT, and the RNC has been nothing more than a glorified fear fest. Jenkins also landed this dig: "Raise your hand if you believe in science." Republicans are a bit iffy on science.